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Pett, Emma(Aberystwyth UniversityTheatre, Film and Television Studies, 2014)

Abstract
A Contested Genre: British Audiences and Asian Extreme Films
This thesis explores the reception and fandom of Asian Extreme films in the UK over the last twelve years. It draws on the findings of a research ...

Status: Developed and performed in Wales; with an initial run of performances from the 8th to 18th August 2012; and staged in Hangar 858, RAF St. Athan, South Wales. Commissioned and produced by National Theatre Wales (NTW) ...

Despite an early emphasis in our work upon the potential for creative interplay between archive and studio, the actual chronicle of CLT and CPR work has been partial and the documentation of process fragmentary. For this ...

Between 1996–97 an almost unprecedented campaign was mounted in the British press against on one film: David Cronenberg’s Crash. What motivated this campaign? What can it tell us about British film culture? What impact did ...

In 1996 David Cronenberg’s film of J.G. Ballard’s Crash led to a huge controversy in Britain, much of which turned on claims of what the film might do to its audience, claims which were the subject of a major ESRC-funded ...

It is now four years since the considerable crisis that pervaded British cinema politics finally juddered to a halt as David Cronenberg's Crash (1996) was released at last to the screens, uncut as an '18'. The controversy ...

This paper examines the film Space is the Place, a 1974 science-fiction film starring jazz maverick Sun Ra. I determine why the film has attained cult status, and demonstrate how an understanding of Sun Ra's particular ...

* Product Description: Authoritative in its reference to all Rudkin's work for theatre, cinema, radio and television, this profound critical study aims to prompt a reappraisal of his work in current dramatic, theoretical, ...

This paper seeks to evaluate developments in both film policy and film production in Wales since 2000. Citing the Referendum on Devolution in 1997 as a critical milestone in forming policy in Wales, this paper will argue ...

Picardie, Michael(Aberystwyth UniversityTheatre, Film and Television Studies, 2009)

It is hypothesised and corroborated that there is a positive aesthetic interaction between the emotional pulse (Kristeva’s chora - what she calls the semiotic) and the actual symbolic meaning in the theatrical action ...

Lighting design for the context-specific theatre event 'Eat Eat' (Quarantine, 2003). The production initiated Brookes' subsequent long-term collaboration with the company. Produced and presented with Leicester Haymarket, ...

EatEat: a performative meal created with Leicester based refugees and asylum seekers. Audience and performers sat together around a 10m long concrete table in Leicester's oldest building, the Guildhall. Sharing a meal or ...

This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers ...

This study argues that Sarah Kane’s work for the theatre proposes a new tragic
aesthetic for the contemporary stage which in many ways transcends the limited
genre definitions with which her work is generally associated. ...